Original Language Studio
2 Samuel 9:2
“And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1004 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- Derivation
- probably from H1129 (בָּנָה) abbreviated;
- KJV renderings
- court, daughter, door, [phrase] dungeon, family, [phrase] forth of, [idiom] great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, [phrase] prison, [phrase] steward, [phrase] tablet, temple, web, [phrase] within(-out).
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- לְ — preposition
- בֵ֨ית — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 2,056 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 6:14Genesis 7:1Genesis 12:1Genesis 12:15Genesis 12:17
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בַּיִת here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.